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Sound Designer,
The Sound Cell
With over 20 years experience in Sound and Music production, Hassan has worked with the finest sound production companies in Belgium, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, on countless Radio and Regional/Global TV Commercials, as well as numerous documentaries coupled with a few feature films.
In 2011, he was hired by Park Road Post Production, Peter Jackson’s sound facility in Wellington, New Zealand (www.parkroad.co.nz) to work as Sound Designer – Sound Editor on ‘Rest For The Wicked’ feature.
He studied music composition/arrangements at the Jazz Studio Music School in Antwerp, Belgium. He recorded and remixed over 500 documentaries in Mandarin and Hindi for The Discovery Channel in Singapore’s first fully digital broadcast station in Asia. As a drummer, he recorded an album with Nigel Gray, Producer of ‘The Police’ in Surrey Sound Studios, London.
His film credit as Sound Effects editor also include ‘The Point Men’, featuring Christopher Lambert and ‘New World Disordered’ featuring Rutger Hauer, for Carousel Pictures, Hollywood as well as ‘Vendedora De Rosas’.
He composed the music for ‘Resonance Mali’ a 52’ ethnic documentary Directed by Christian Alvarez. Hassan was awarded for ‘Best Sound Track and Music’ for ‘The Ring’ TVC at the Singapore CCA 2005, as well as a few award winning projects for the BBC Worldwide at ProMax BDA. Pursuing a high interest in feature films, he mixed around 15 short films for NYU Tisch Asia Singapore Campus, where Oliver Stone is Art Director. He had the chance to record Michelle Yeoh (Bond girl) in The National Geographic Network’s ‘Great Apes’ documentary.
In 2008, Hassan founded a boutique company called ‘The Sound Cell Pte. Ltd.’ in Singapore and is working for the BBC since then. The company recently relocated in Australia and is currently restructuring new operations in Melbourne, as well as Wellington, New Zealand.
For more details visit www.thesoundcell.com
Awards:
2010: Spikes Asia – Bronze for Standard Chartered Bank ‘Africa’
2008: ProMax 2008 – Silver BBC Worldwide ‘Racism, A history’
2005: Creative Circle Award – Best Music and Soundtrack for ‘The Ring’ TVC
2003: Effie Award – ‘The Barrier’
2002: Gold Cinema Creative Club Belgium – Gold Lion Cannes for ‘Heaven Can Wait’
2002: Clio Award – Bronze Lion Cannes – Gold Creative Club Belgium for ‘The Wasp’.
The Gunnery
Evan Roberts has been working in media broadcasting since age of eight. At fifteen he was producing radio drama at NZBC and acting on TV. He had a career in radio broadcasting for eight years which encompassed engineering, commercial production, on air operations and recording live and studio music. He has engineered, performed and produced on music works for EMI, Universal, BMG and Cafe Del Mar.
Evan coaches voice artists for work in film, TV and advertising and is himself a professional media broadcasting voice over. He has created music and sound design for short films, some of which have merited awards such as short film of the year 1989 and Accolade film award 1991. He has also won awards for audio in advertising, Bronze and Silver Axis, Cannes Gold and Silver Lions, New York Festival and Bronze LIA. He is also working in the field of computer science to create new kinds of audio equipment to augment The Gunnery’s work including new kinds of granular synthesis sound design tools and alternatives to chromatic music design.
Managing Director,
Yellowbox Sound Studio
Rennie Gomes is the backbone of Yellow Box in the metaphorical sense. He wears several professional hats as composer, sound designer, Film Mixer and Managing Director.
In late 2009 Rennie spearheaded Yellow Box Studios’ most adventurous project to date. Together with business partner Ricky
Ho, they built Singapore’s only Dolby Certified Film Mixing facility and a Film Scoring stage to cater for their increasing regional film clientele.
His award winning advertising credits include Bronze in The Singapore Creative Circle Awards 2007 for his composition “Missing”. Also a Finalist for Best Music in a TV campaign in the prestigious D&AD 2001. In 2007 a Music video which he produced with Royston Tan received a D&AD nomination – a first in the region.
Rennie was also awarded Best Sound Design in the 2002 New York Festival for JVC ‘Sound’, a commercial produced by The Shooting Gallery for local powerhouse, Ad Planet, featured an unusually quiet style of sound design.
As a sound designer and film mixer, he is also much sought after for his inventive, unorthodox approach to cinema audio.
Rennie has worked with Emmy Award winner Robert Chappel, Asia’s film stalwart Eric Khoo and awarded director Royston Tan. In September last year ‘Bait’ a 3D full feature for release worldwide was mixed at Yellow Box’s new facility. New soundtracks mixed to date at the Dub Stage include My Dog Dou Dou, Imperfect and Dead Mine.
303 Lowe Perth
Steve has been writing ads for 18 years. He began his career as a copywriter in South Africa in 1995 but is no stranger to our own shores. After seven years in Singapore, Steve recently moved to Australia where he now works with 303 Lowe.
Steve joins the radio jury with a collection of awards behind him including those from AdFest, Award, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, London Internationals, Spikes and One Show.
While Steve has a passion for all writing, his first love was and still is radio. He suspects this has something to do with his being raised on a healthy collection of Monty Python audio CDs.
Deputy General Manager
Branding & Strategic Marketing
City Developments Limited
Since he was first commended as Best Young Copywriter with a mere nine months of work, The Creative Circle Awards has been kind to Mark- winning the Golden Gong in 1995 and the only two Gold awards in the last CCA.
His 22 years in advertising, included tenures as the first creative director and Singaporean to become Chief Executive Officer of the legendary Batey Ads and judging stints at D&AD, New York Festivals and other regional and local awards.
In 2011, Mark traded in his Hawaiian shirts and sneakers as Creative Director of Young & Rubicam for a suit and brogues as Deputy General Manager – Branding & Strategic Marketing for City Developments Limited.
The crossover to the client-side is seen by some as the Final Frontier for a complete career in advertising, a case that ‘ex-poachers make the best game wardens’ or simply a mid-life anomaly.
The debate continues.
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Head Of Jury
Victor Ng
Chief Creative Officer,
Euro RSCG
Victor was a fresh Economics graduate when he finally decided he was more rightbrained. He has worked at some of the finest agencies in Singapore, London and Shanghai.
Starting as a copywriter at Leo Burnett Singapore, he moved to legendary hotshop Mother London, before leading Euro RSCG Singapore and DDB Shanghai to win Agency Of The Year in South East Asia (Campaign) and Agency Of The Year in Greater China runner up (Campaign) respectively, as Executive Creative Director.
Victor has won awards at every major international competition for his work on Procter & Gamble, Pepsico, McDonald’s, Philips, Coca-Cola, Clorox and Nikon. He has served on a number of judging panels, including D&AD (twice), Cannes, Clio, London International Awards, New York Festivals, Spikes Asia, China Longxi; and has led the Asia-Pacific Adfest Outdoor Jury and Singapore Crowbar Awards as Jury President.
Over the past five years, Victor has been nominated for Creative Of The Year (Campaign), Creative Director Of The Year (Singapore Hall Of Fame), Most Influential Creative Director (Institute Of Advertising Singapore), Creative Achievement Award (New York Festivals), Marketing Stars Under-35 (Marketing) and Star Performer Of The Year (Euro RSCG Worldwide).
Last year, he was featured in the book Creative Director: Year 0—an inspirational collection of success stories from 25 of the world’s top creative directors.
He enjoys writing but has a fear of writing bios.
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